Who was behind the creation of the world map, the only one most of us seem to know? Through research, I discovered the ...

The Geographical Journal has been published since 1831, and was the Society's journal of report until the relaunch in 2000. It has the highest circulation of any British academic journal in its field ...

New Delhi: Member states of the African Union, on 15 August, signed a petition for the world to ‘reject’ the Mercator map projection and accept a more equitable projection that “more accurately ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.